OCG News and Broadcast Announcements

Globally important news and commentary on issues and events relevant throughout the African Diaspora.

 

 

March 22, 2021   Taylor Joins OUR COMMON GROUND as Host

OUR COMMON GROUND is proud to have Dr. James L. Taylor join our LIVE broadcast line-up. We will be adding OUR COMMON GROUND with Dr. James Taylor in April 2021. Dr. Taylor has been an OCG Voice since 2016. Please join us in welcoming him to the host mic.
We are exceedingly excited for having him navigate Black activists and thinkers through this new era of Black political struggle. His unique and keen ability to interpret, connect and translate America’s ever-darkening and confusing political landscape. Instincts and commentary we can trust.

 

National Women’s History Month

Janice Graham, CEO of OUR COMMON GROUND Media and Communications, host of OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham cited as a nationally-noted broadcaster during National Women’s History Month.

Janice has been broadcasting for more than 34 years on her OUR COMMON GROUND platform.

2014 Media Award

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This Week on OUR COMMON GROUND
Liberation Warrior, Efia Nwangaza
July 7, 2010 10 pm ET
LIVE & CALL-IN 347-838-9852Efia Nwangaza is the founder and Executive Director of the Afrikan-American Institute for Policy Studies and Planning and founding member and SC Coordinator for the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement for Self-Determination. She is the founder/coordinator of the WMXP-LP community based radio, and a board member of Pacifica National Foundation, the nations oldest progressive radio network.BLACK MEDIA: Preserving Black Independent Voices

Efia Nwangaza is the founder and Executive Director of the Afrikan-American Institute for Policy Studies and Planning and founding member and SC Coordinator for the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement for Self-Determination. She is the founder/coordinator of the WMXP-LP community-based radio, and a board member of Pacifica National Foundation, the nations oldest progressive radio network.

Nwangaza learned the power of radio as an organizing tool early in life from her parents who worked in international evangelical radio broadcasting.

Efia is the former co-chair of the Jericho Movement for US Political Prisoners, represented the U.S. Human Rights Network’s Political Prisoner Working Group in observing the U.S. first appearance for UN Universal Periodic Review, in Geneva. She represented the National Conference of Black Lawyers in Aristide era Haiti, lectured at the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, NGO Forum, Beijing, China, and helped draft action plan for UN World Conference Against Racism.

She is an Amnesty International USA Human Rights Defender, and past member of the National Board of Directors for National Organization of Women (1990-1994) which launched the Every Woman NOW Campaign for President to force NOW to address internal white supremacy and elitism, African-American Institute for Research and Empowerment (1994-1996), South Carolina ACLU (1994-2000), and she was a 2004 Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate in memoriam and education of voting rights/citizenship work and ethics of Fannie Lou Hammer, Mojeska Simpkins, and Septima Clark.

Efia Nwangaza is a lifelong civil/human rights activist and freedom fighter who first worked for the liberation of African/Black people as a child in her Garveyite parents’ apostolic faith church, in her birth place of Norfolk, Virginia.

OUR COMMON GROUND with Janice Graham
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